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About
The 27th April in South Africa - known as Freedom Day - marks the anniversary of the first democratic election in modern South Africa.
To see what people in South Africa (and around the world) were saying, tweets related to Freedom Day were streamed over a 30 hour period beginning Wed April 26 16:17:26 GMT+2:00 (local Johannesburg time) and ending Thu April 27 22:17:26 GMT+2:00.
The stream tracked the following hashtags #FreedomDay, #SAUnite, #savesa, #FreedomMovement and #27April.
Privacy
All data used to produce the visualisations in this dashboard has been anonymised, including geographic data which has been aggregated over a sample of 2000 tweets.
Summary
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The stream at a glance
Most common words
Self-identification in statuses
Most retweeted tweet
Hashtags
Mentions
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Most mentions
@Thom_astro? Why were people mentioning a celebrity astronaught?
Sentiment
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Sentiment at a glance
Sentiment over time
Positive words
Negative words
Emojis
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Most common emojis
Emoji sentiment
Positive emojis
Negative emojis
